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## Genesis 2:10-12 in Context (Verses 7–15 KJV)
 
 [7 ](/kjv/genesis/2/7) And the LORD God formed man *of* the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/genesis/2/8) ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/genesis/2/9) And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/genesis/2/10) And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/genesis/2/11) The name of the first *is* Pison: that *is* it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where *there is* gold;
 
 [12 ](/kjv/genesis/2/12) And the gold of that land *is* good: there *is* bdellium and the onyx stone.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/genesis/2/13) And the name of the second river *is* Gihon: the same *is* it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.*
 
 [14 ](/kjv/genesis/2/14) And the name of the third river *is* Hiddekel: that *is* it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river *is* Euphrates.*
 
 [15 ](/kjv/genesis/2/15) And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.*
 
[Genesis 1](/kjv/genesis/1) [Genesis 3](/kjv/genesis/3)

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